funebrial
English
Alternative forms
- funebral
Etymology
From Latin funebris (“belonging to a funeral”), from funus (“funeral”).
Adjective
funebrial (comparative more funebrial, superlative most funebrial)
- (obsolete) Pertaining to a funeral or funerals; funereal.
- c. 1683, Thomas Browne, Certain Miscellany Tracts
- they [garlands] were convivial, festival, sacrificial, nuptial, honorary, funebrial
- c. 1683, Thomas Browne, Certain Miscellany Tracts
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for funebrial in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- unfirable, unfriable